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I feel this article needs to more clearly define what it means by the ratios here : Typical ratios of TNT to ammonium nitrate... so I assume 20/80 mean 20% TNT and 80 % Amatol ? This appears to be the intention as preceding this TNT is mentioned before Amatol. It could be idiot-proofed by "(e.g. 20% TNT and 80% Amatol)" to remove the possibility of ambiguity in interpretation.
But - further down there follows : "However, the lowest grades of amatol (eg 20/80) could not..." What does "lowest grades" mean ? If we assume 20/80 means 80% Amatol as per above, 80% would seem to be a high grade...
Typical British ammunition described as 60/40 Amatol meant 60% Amatol, 40% TNT and was effective. So I dont understand the statement here "Amatol allowed existing supplies of TNT to be "padded out considerably, with little reduction in the destructive power of the final product -so long as the amount of TNT in the mixture did not fall below 60%". ?? Rcbutcher ( talk) 12:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
the article states from white to gray but a account from the time when which this was often used states it as yellow brown. http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Balloon/Balloon.htm I do not know the accuracy of either this page nor the person that stated white to grey; I assume this is because modern amatol has this colour. Anyway, i've added this to the talk page in case someone wants to make sense of that particular detail. 75.156.147.1 ( talk) 19:30, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
The 'Amatol' name comes from Ammonium toluene —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.251.94 ( talk) 14:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
According to various sources, there seems to be some differences between Amatol and Schneiderite : Amatol is TNT + ammonium nitrate ; schneiderite is dinitronaphtalene + ammonium nitrate. See for example : here or here. It could perhaps be a "false friend" ? Tpe.g5.stan ( talk) 12:28, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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I feel this article needs to more clearly define what it means by the ratios here : Typical ratios of TNT to ammonium nitrate... so I assume 20/80 mean 20% TNT and 80 % Amatol ? This appears to be the intention as preceding this TNT is mentioned before Amatol. It could be idiot-proofed by "(e.g. 20% TNT and 80% Amatol)" to remove the possibility of ambiguity in interpretation.
But - further down there follows : "However, the lowest grades of amatol (eg 20/80) could not..." What does "lowest grades" mean ? If we assume 20/80 means 80% Amatol as per above, 80% would seem to be a high grade...
Typical British ammunition described as 60/40 Amatol meant 60% Amatol, 40% TNT and was effective. So I dont understand the statement here "Amatol allowed existing supplies of TNT to be "padded out considerably, with little reduction in the destructive power of the final product -so long as the amount of TNT in the mixture did not fall below 60%". ?? Rcbutcher ( talk) 12:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
the article states from white to gray but a account from the time when which this was often used states it as yellow brown. http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Balloon/Balloon.htm I do not know the accuracy of either this page nor the person that stated white to grey; I assume this is because modern amatol has this colour. Anyway, i've added this to the talk page in case someone wants to make sense of that particular detail. 75.156.147.1 ( talk) 19:30, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
The 'Amatol' name comes from Ammonium toluene —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.251.94 ( talk) 14:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
According to various sources, there seems to be some differences between Amatol and Schneiderite : Amatol is TNT + ammonium nitrate ; schneiderite is dinitronaphtalene + ammonium nitrate. See for example : here or here. It could perhaps be a "false friend" ? Tpe.g5.stan ( talk) 12:28, 12 July 2023 (UTC)